It runs okay, if by okay you don't mean perfectly - and that took forever, thought I'd never get the game to even open, after more reinstalls than anyone could ever count. It's worse on Mac, but I don't want to buy Win7 - and Vista, the first one or whatever, is exactly what got me my first Mac, cause I needed a computer instead of a paperweight - wow that thing was bad, no one could exaggerate it @_@ lots of new Mac customers from it.

Spore definitely has more trouble with Mac - but I killed bootcamp, XP pro looked so bad on my hi-def widescreen it hurt, never used it. Spore is actually under a different account, that's what tech support figured out after weeks of trying to solve several major problems. There's an occasional crash, but really not that many.

There's a video at sporebase - even the tutorial for installing mods wasn't easy enough, I'm so techlame, but the video is amazing, what every tech dummie needs, and apparently they're okay on Mac - will find out more, mods, finally. Maybe I'll even stop cussing Maxis idea of game design in-game, which would actually be amazing XD